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2008
Thomas Nagels contribution to philosophy over the past forty years has been enormously influential. In this book, the first sustained examination of Nagels ideas, Alan Thomas provides readers with a detailed exploration of the central dichotomy around which Nagel organizes his philosophy: the concern over how to reconcile the subjective and ...
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Thomas Nagels contribution to philosophy over the past forty years has been enormously influential. In this book, the first sustained examination of Nagels ideas, Alan Thomas provides readers with a detailed exploration of the central dichotomy around which Nagel organizes his philosophy: the concern over how to reconcile the subjective and ...
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CAN ARISTOTLE HELP THOMAS NAGEL?
Science et Esprit, 2020Les principes téléologiques aristotéliciens sont à l’oeuvre dans les organismes individuels, et non à titre de principe cosmique transcendant les limites du développement spécifique des individus. Considérant l’irréductibilité de la forme, le philosophe identifie les mécanismes de la causalité efficiente donnant à la cause finale, immatérielle, une ...
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On Thomas Nagel's Rejection of Theism
Harvard Theological Review, 2013In his most recent book—Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False—and in numerous places in his previous work, Thomas Nagel wishes to suggest several reasons that theism is not a live option for him (to use a phrase made famous by William James).
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2006
Persons are subjects of thought and action; they live in a world that science has so successfully managed to understand. As subjects, persons have a very particular perspective on the world and their actions in it: call it the subjective perspective.
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Persons are subjects of thought and action; they live in a world that science has so successfully managed to understand. As subjects, persons have a very particular perspective on the world and their actions in it: call it the subjective perspective.
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2018
The comprehensiveness of Thomas Nagel’s approach to philosophy sets him apart among late-twentieth-century analytic philosophers. Nagel develops a compelling analysis of the fundamental philosophical problems, showing how they result from our capacity to take up increasingly objective viewpoints that detach us from our individual subjective viewpoints ...
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The comprehensiveness of Thomas Nagel’s approach to philosophy sets him apart among late-twentieth-century analytic philosophers. Nagel develops a compelling analysis of the fundamental philosophical problems, showing how they result from our capacity to take up increasingly objective viewpoints that detach us from our individual subjective viewpoints ...
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O absurdo no existencialismo de Thomas Nagel
Controvérsia (UNISINOS) - ISSN 1808-5253, 2022O presente artigo argumenta que a noção de absurdo desenvolvida por Thomas Nagel, em seu The Absurd, está longe de representar apenas a aventura de um filósofo analítico pelo território da filosofia continental. Isso porque a noção nageliana de absurdo se conecta com a questão central do seu pensamento, qual seja, o problema de como ...
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Thomas vs. Thomas: A New Approach to Nagel's Bat Argument
Inquiry (United Kingdom), 2003 In this paper I examine Thomas Nagel's familiar challenge to physicalism. Nagel famously uses his vivid example about the sensory apparatus of bats to illustrate the difficulty of providing a purely physical characterization of phenomenal experience. Adapting Thomas Aquinas's principle regarding the nature of divine omnipotence, I argue that the fact ...
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